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     CLASS NAME  	Fclass  	Fcode  	CODE  	DESCRIPTION  	EXAMPLES
 Lands 	L 	LAND 	1 	Large continental areas, entirely or partly defined by natural boundaries 	Land, Territory
 Elevated features - a 	T 	MT 	2a 	Large conspicuous heights 	Mount, Mountain, Volcano
 Elevated features - b 	T 	HLL 	2b 	Moderate to low heights 	Hill, Knob, Mound, Moraine, Nunatak
 Elevated features - c 	T 	MTS 	2c 	Alignments and highland systems 	Chain, Group, Massif, Range
 Elevated features - d 	T 	PK 	2d 	High summits 	Needle, Peak, Ridge, Summit, Top
 Elevated features - e 	T 	PASS 	2e 	Mountain passes 	Col, Crossing, Gap, Pass, Saddle
 Elevated features - f 	T 	SLP 	2f 	Slopes and walls 	Buttress, Cliff, Escarpment, Slope
 Elevated features - g 	T 	VAL 	2g 	Valleys 	Canyon, Gorge, Gully, Valley
 Elevated features - h 	T 	PLAT 	2h 	Plains of variable altitude 	Flat, Highland, Plain, Plateau, Table
 Coves and harbours 	H 	COVE 	3 	Any kind of coastal indentation, usually large and/or deep 	Anchorage, Bay, Bight, Dock, Cove, Fjord, Harbour, Inlet
 Seas 	H 	SEA 	4 	Sub-division of the salt water partially covering the Earthâs surface 	Sea
 Islands 	T 	ISL 	5 	Islands and any kind of isolated feature (usually small) emerging from the water 	Archipelago, Island, Reef, Skerry, Stack
 Sea floor 	U 		6 	Any submarine feature 	Bank, Deep, Patch, Shoal, Trench
 Sea coasts 	T 	SHOR 	7 	Any kind of shore between land and sea 	Coast, Beach, Strand
 Capes and coastal projections 	T 	CAPE 	8 	Any kind of land feature projecting into the sea 	Arm, Cape, Headland, Peninsula, Promontory, Point , Tongue
 Sea access 	H 	CHN 	9 	Any kind of sea passage between two lands or between a land and an ocean 	Entrance, Channel, Narrows, Passage, Sound, Strait
 Fluvial features 	H 	STM 	10 	Any kind of fluvial feature 	River, Stream, Rapids
 Inland water features 	H 	LK 	11 	Any kind of lacustrine feature 	Lagoon, Lake, Pond, Pool
 Ice features 	H 		12 	Any kind of ice-made feature, except cracks 	Glacier, Iceberg tongue, Ice fall, Névé
 Ice cracks 	H 		13 	Any kind of ice crack 	Chasm, Crevasse
 Man-made features 	S 		14 	Any kind of man-made feature, including historic monuments 	Camp, Monument, Station, Base, Wharf
 Round features 		15 	Any feature having a circular shape 	Amphitheatre, Arena, Basin, Cave, Circle, Hole
 Rookeries 	S 	RKRY 	16 	Nesting and breeding places of a penguin colony 	Rookery
 


Places with 'glacier' or 'glaciar' in their name were set to GLCR, places with 'Nunatak' were set to NTK and 'Nunataks' to NTKS.
Hi Melee

It depends on which country and which service we are speaking of.

This reverse geocoding service returns street level data for the US :
http://www.geonames.org/maps/reverse-geocoder.html


Cheers

Marc
We have changed the administrative division of the UK and have included the 'countries' England,Scottland, Wales and Northern Ireland as first level administrative division ADM1. All other divisions were moved down one level.

ADM1 : countries (4)
ADM2 : counties, metropolitan districts, unitary-authorities, greater london
ADM3 : districts / parishes in region without districts
ADM4 : parishes in districts

The publictag attribute helps distinguish between the type of admin divisions.

The administrative hiearchy in the UK is rather complex. See also this blog posting :
http://geonames.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/ordnance-survey-administrative-divisons/

The GORs are not included in the GeoNames admin hiearchy for the UK. We will find an other way to model this relationship between admininstative divisions.



Update May 2010: The UK admin divisions have been updated with the newly released data by the OS Open Data initiative:
http://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/uk-open-public-data/
Hallo Ralf

Vielen Dank. Ich habe ein Rjukan gelöscht und das Problem mit der Beligischen Provinz gelöst.

Du kannst es hier melden, wenn immer du was findets.

Gruss

Marc
No problem. Now I see the problem and I have marked the other languages too. What I don't understand is why you cannot do this update, shouldn't be.

Cheers

Marc
Hi Oscar

I have added an new alternate name 'Istanbul' and set it as preferred name. It should not be necessary to set all names to 'preferred' since the old names don't have a language flag just like the preferred name I have just created.

Cheers

Marc

Ralf wrote:
Sollte mir noch etwas auffallen, melde ich mich, ok? 

klar, immer melden, wenn dir was auffällt. Oder kannst es auch selbst beheben.

Gruss

Marc
I don't have an example for the geonames services. You find a lot of other examples and tutorials on the web :
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=php+rest

This should help you to get started.

Cheers

Marc
Hi

If your points are in the US then you can use our 'findNearestAddress' web service :
http://ws.geonames.org/findNearestAddress?lat=37.451&lng=-122.18

For points outside of the US we don't have a street level reverse geocoding service. You could use the findNearbyPlace service to get the closest city name. You might want to combine different services to get the optimal result.

In any case, please be nice to our servers and use some wait time between requests.

Cheers

Marc
Hi Oscar

Thanks. There was something amis. Another user has changed the administrative division to the capital and the capital to the section of a populated place. I have undone these modifications.

Cheers

Marc
Hallo Ralf

Ich denke es macht mehr Sinn das geographische Zentrum zu nehmen (was auch immer das ist). Ich habe deshalb die US auf eine Position südlich von Lebanon, Kansas korrigiert. Das politische Zentrum lässt sich ja leicht aus der Hauptstadt ableiten, falls jemand daran interessiert ist.

Gruss

Marc
As I undertand it there was a restructuring in 1996. We seem to have the 21 districts priot to this.
Today there are 32 districts.

Do you know the coordinates to the 32 current districts?

Cheers

Marc
Hallo Simon

Diejenigen, die ADMD waren habe ich auf ADM3 aktualisiert. Jetzt haben wir noch 166 ADMDs :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=admd+at&country=AT
Viele davon sollten eigentlich verschwinden.

Die anderen werden ich als neue ADM3 einfügen an den Koordinaten der zugehörigen PPL. Das heisst alle Gemeinden haben den feature code ADM3 und die Städte den feature code PPL. Damit ist sichergestellt, dass es nur einen ADM3 pro Gemeinde gibt. Das ist eine gewisse Doppelspurigkeit, die lässt sich aber mit der einfachen eindimensionalen Gliederung nicht umgehen und stört ja auch nicht.
Das heisst bei den duplicates hat es auch solche dabei, die nicht duplicate sind. Zum Bsp "Russbach am Pass Gschütt" ist als PPL und ADMD vorhanden. Es muss nur das ADMD auf ADM3 gesetzt werden.

Die Koordinaten kannst du gerne von der OpenGeoDB verwenden, die Lizenz ist zum Glück kompatibel. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass die OpenGeoDB jetzt auch Daten für Österreich enthält.

Gruss

Marc
Hi Rakesh

Did you check the query execution plan for your query? I doubt it is using the index.
As we anyhow do some processing in the application level we calculate the exact meter values within the application and not on the database. We also combine the radius parameter with the maxRows parameter which translates to a 'limit' clause on the database level.


Cheers

Marc
Hi Eirik

Sure. Here you go :
http://ws.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?country=NO&adminCode1=12&adminCode2=1243

I had to make a minor change to enable this kind of query.

Cheers

Marc
thanks for sharing this.

Marc
Hallo Ralf

Der Service heisst 'get' :
http://ws.geonames.org/get?geonameId=1

Gruss

Marc
Ich leite jetzt einige web services auf einen anderen server im cluster.

Gruss

Marc
Das sollte eigentlich gar nicht passieren. Der neue Server ist auch schon bereit, muss nur noch alles installiert werden.

Marc
Hi

Thanks for the donation.

Some countries have complicated forms with a lot of islands. The polygon for Alaska has 70'000 points.

Cheers

Marc
 
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